Need help with Django URL string parameter pattern in Python

Question

Hi all, 

I am aware that the Django URL pattern consists of the following number of parameters:

url(r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>\d+)/$', 'polls.views.detail')

My question is pretty simple - What would be the right way of using the code if the poll_id, in this case, turns to be NaN but an actual character string with certain data in it?

How can I go about this? All help appreciated!

Answer 1

Good question. The solution to this short problem is small as well.

It all comes down to what characters you plan to use in your particular program. After referring to the official documentation you can make use of \w. 

This basically gives you an underscore or even an alphanumeric character that you can make use of to serve the purpose

Hope this helped!